Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-18
SPIES INTENDED VICTIM,
Miss Van Zandt's Relatives Threaten to
Disinherit Her.

MISS Van LaHutS Relatives Inreaten TO
Disinherit Her.
by telegraph to the REcoRD-USIoN.
PITrsBURG, January l7th.-Upon the re-
ceipt of the Associated Press dispatches
from Chicago stating that Mrs John
Arthur the aunt of Miss Nina Van Zandt,
had teIegraphed from this city to Marriage
License Clerk Seegur, forbidding him
issuing a license for the marriage of the
young lady to Spies, the Anarchist, Cona-
paerciat Gazette reporter called upon the
lady to ascertain the attitude OF Miss Van
Iandt's friends in regard 10 her course OF
conduct. Mrs. Arthur seemed heart
broken. To the reporter she said
+" l spent nearly the entire Sabbath on
my knees in prayer tor that infatuated girl,
and when l opened the paper this morning
and saw that Mr.. Eugene Seegur, the Chi
cago marriage license-clerk, had refused to
license her, and that she could not marry
thanked God for what seemed direct an
swer to my prayers; and then the next
thing did was to send a telegram to Mr.
Seegur thanking him for his manliness in
daring to refuse the license. The first in
timation her relatives had of the existing
state of affairs was the announcement made
in the papers on Saturday last"
The shock to Mrs. Arthur and her dis
tinguished father and mother can be
readily imagined, especially as Miss Van
Zandt's mother, who is an only sister of
Mrs. Arthur, had been visiting her parents
and sister Just two weeks previous, and,
with the exception of jckingly remarking
that Nina expected to marry some nice
young man in the spring, had made moth
ing known, and had not given the slightest
hint in the true direction. On reading the
news so great was the prostration of Mrs
Arthurs father, Mr.. VIM. B. Clarke. that
Mrs. Arthur was obliged to write to the
Van Zandts the message she wished to
send. The letter was mailed by 10 o'clock
on Saturday, imploring them to prevent
the wedding. This was closely followed by
another. and the Van Zandt family were
informed that henceforth they were not to
be considered in the light of relatives.
Every connection-socially and financially
was dissolved forever, and Miss Nina
utterly disinherited.
"She will receive no more than our dog
lying there on the rug Every dollar will
be bequeathed to charitable purposes ~
said Mrs. Arthur as she wiped the tears
from her eyes.
This morning letter was received from
Mrs. Van Zandt, from Chicago, written be-
fore the receipt of those sent from Pitts
burg, in which she informs her relatives of
Nina's approaching marriage to Spies, the
Anarchist, and invites them to be present
at the ceremony, which is to be performed
ON Thursday in the Jail in Chicago, adding
also that she and Mr.. Van Zandt could find
no fault in the man, and had given their
full consent to the nuplialS, and that she
hoped the friends here would not worry
themselves.
This letter" continued Mrs. Arthur,
(which shows Nina's parents to be as
highly blamed as Nina herself, only made
father and all of US more firm in the de-
termination to disown the family forever.
/ fear" continued Mrs. Arthur, that it is
her bright way of talking that has led her
into this. She never saw Spies until that
day in the Courtroom. Then she probably
visited him in Jail and exchanged few
words and sentiments which led to this.
But we cannot account for this complete
infatGation, unless she and her father and
mother have all gone crazy, and We think
they have. If Nina is an atheist now. she
certainly was not last summer, as she con-
templated at that time joining the church."
Mr.. Clarke will positively refuse to have
anything more to do with the family If
the marriage takes place not a dollar will
be expended for the release of the con-
demned Anarchist. MIR. Clarke is lying
seriously i'll at his elegant residence in
Oakland, prostrated by the news of Miss
Van Zandts intended marriage, and the
family fear he will not recover.
THE GIRL BECOMES RAMPANT
CHICAGO, January 17th.-The interview
with Mrs. Arthur, telegraphed from Pitts
burg, disnheriting her, and telling of the
prostration of her grandfather was read TO
Miss Van. Zandt this evening. The young
lady exhibited considerable passion II
consider it an unwarraptable outrage
| consider that message an unwarrantable
interference - she repeated, land it will
not deter me in the least !"
Miss Nina hinted that she was about to
publish book over her maiden name,
which was to be a history of the life of
Spies, written by himself and prefaced by
herself. Clerk Seegur, who refused to
issue the marriage license said he thought
Miss Van Zandt was. in his opinion, vic
tim of the ready wit of Spies and his
counsel; that Miss Van Za DIT did not
love Spies, nor Spies h r, but the real
affinity is between Miss Van Zandt, who
has nine dogs, and Mrs. Captain Black,
who has sixty dogs. He thought the
object of it all was to create sympathy for
Spies, and provoke the clemency of the
Governor. Clerk Seegur said he would go
to Van Iandt and represent the matter to
him in this light. In thus dragging down
i.